Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TUDHOE

TUDHOE, a township-chapelry in Brancepeth parish, Durham; 1½ mile N of Spennymoor r. station. Post town, Spennymoor, under Ferryhill. Acres, 1,699. Real property, £3,263; of which £1,250 are in ironworks. Pop. in 1851, 400; in 1861, 1,359. Houses, 241. The increase of pop. arose from extension of ironworks. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, not reported. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of D.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Brancepeth CP/AP       County Durham AncC
Place: Tudhoe

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